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How Not to Run a Parental Engagement Meeting “People were engaging in mortal combat in the sports hall” – Tom Starkey takes a tongue-in-cheek look at your school’s last staff meeting...

Developing Fluency at the Right Time can Significantly Improve Literacy at KS2 The four core aspects of reading fluency are expression and volume, phrasing, smoothness and pace, says Megan Dixon...

Best GCSE maths resources for last-minute revision Make sure your pupils' revision adds up with these resources to help remember and recall all they've learned...

The Curriculum has Been in a Muddle for Far Too Long It’s great that schools are now being asked to work towards coherence, insists Mary Myatt...

8 of the best mean, median and mode worksheets and resources for KS3 and KS4 maths Sometimes it's good to be average, common and stuck in the middle, as your secondary students can find out with these lesson plans, activities, ideas and more...

How Not to Hold a Curriculum Redesign Meeting “We basically need to knowledge the crap out of everything” – Tom Starkey takes the minutes from your school’s last meeting...

How Do You Model Good Writing for Students? Effective modelling should be part of every teacher’s toolkit, says Thomas Briars – and there are several ways of going about it...

What to do When your School has Decided Against Permanent Exclusions Choosing not to exclude persistently disruptive students is never an easy option, says Kylie Ingram – but it’s often the most rewarding one...

High Expectations Helped to Propel This Academy to ‘Outstanding’ It’s about the children, not a label, says headteacher Melissa Martinez...

Using ICT to Reduce School Operating Costs Putting the right technology in place to support learning, rather than making learning work around technology, will enable schools to achieve a higher level of ICT delivery, says Jayne Davies...

Features of an autobiography – 6 of the best resources for KS2 English Getting kids to talk about themselves shouldn't be hard, but getting them to create good autobiographical writing, you might need these activities, ideas, templates and worksheets...

Give Students Time to Plan and Redraft Work Assessing pupils who find writing a barrier is complex, but we owe it to them to unlock their potential, says Jules Daulby...

It’s Time to Take Risks with your Lessons Learning should be dangerous, daring and educationally adventurous, and as a teacher you should be making mistakes to learn from along the way, says Ben Cooper...

Enter the Beano’s National Joke-Writing Competition and Get Free Classroom Resources The Beano is on the lookout for Britain’s funniest school class. So download the free comedy-writing lesson plans and enter your class' three best gags...

Enabling Students with Profound Learning Difficulties to Work Alongside Mainstream Peers Benefits All At Royal Docks Academy, enabling students with profound and multiple learning difficulties to live and learn alongside their mainstream peers is unlocking benefits for every student, as Zama Shozi explains…

6 Ways for Primary Teachers to Work Smarter and Save Time Constantly running out of hours in the day to complete your to-do list? Make a change with Abigail Mann’s savvy ideas...

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Romeo and Juliet Key Quotations – Tybalt Capulet Helen Mears picks out lines that could help students explain the significance of this minor, yet crucial, character...

Moon Landing – 8 of the best primary teaching resources It's been over half a century since humankind stepped foot on the moon. Teach your pupils about Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and the Apollo 11 mission with these resources...

7 of the best determiners resources and worksheets for KS2 English Whose grammar resources? Your grammar resources. Some SPaG worksheets? Many SPaG worksheets. Make learning determiners stick with these great resources and lessons...

Why I Won’t Stop Fighting for the Arts in Schools The creative industries in this country are worth billions, says James Haddrell – and for young people, the chance to participate in the arts can prove priceless...

Flexible Working Hours are Needed to Ensure Women are Represented in Leadership Damian Hinds is on the right track with his proposals to address the teacher recruitment and retention challenge – but there’s still something missing...

Visiting a Requires Improvement School Just Before an Ofsted Inspection “If you stick to the principle that the students must always be at the centre of everything you do, you find the way”

6 Ways to Involve Parents with Computing Even the most technophobic adults can be persuaded to engage with their child’s IT studies, says Terry Freedman...

Why Major Sporting Events make Great School Trips Major sporting events can offer surprising educational opportunities, insists Cath Plummer – and not just for the PE curriculum...

Is your School Doing Enough to Tackle Period-Related Anxiety With your students’ self-esteem, concentration and even attendance at stake, is your school doing enough to tackle period-related anxiety, asks Anna Blewett...

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